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Friday Fun Thread for November 21, 2025

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With frank confusion, I discovered that a Korean place near me offers raw meat as a delivery option on Uber Eats. This is normal enough for a grocery store, but this is a normal ass restaurant that'll sell you sliced pork belly, steak and the like, all raw, alongside relatively standard (and cooked) options.

Why? Is there a market for people who order ingredients for their meals from a restaurant? Having to cook takeout seems to diminish the value proposition, but I can't keep up with the kids these days.

Not Asian but I suspect it's because of Hot Pot culture.

It's a whole social thing that replaces drinking or goes in addition to drinking for some Asian communities.

This sounds right, but I prefer to believe that there's a large contingent of people out there rawdogging beef and pork like sashimi.

I have seen beef sashimi on a menu before. It's at least not considered unsafe like raw pork.

There's also stuff like beef carpaccio, beef tartare, and others. But all those are all relatively rare, and risky and difficult from a quality control-perspective, compared to fish sashimi.

I'd be genuinely surprised if there were enough Koreans (or even East Asians) in my neck of the woods to provide demand for that. On the other hand, I can only assume the margins are great, if they're flipping cuts of meat raw or marinaded for 2-4x cost.

It's not just Koreans - a lot of my Asian friends of all stripes are into KBBQ and Hot Pot.

It may also be The Fashion among "Wordly" types to imitate the style.

And of course the margins are probably great - you can probably charge a lot to the "oh fuck we didn't get enough pork belly" crowd.

...this is probably a sign of the decline of humanity though (just plan better ffs).

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